A British team acting as legal counsel to the family of Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi said it had received credible information that his youngest son had been killed a year ago by “a lethal substance”.
On 4 September 2019, Abdullah Morsi was found dead at the age of 25 in a hospital in Giza, south of the Egyptian capital, allegedly after suffering a heart attack.
At the time, his lawyer in Cairo, Abdelmonem Abdelmaksoud, said Abdullah had had a heart attack while driving in his car with a friend. The friend was reportedly able to stop the car and drove to the al-Waha hospital, but doctors’ efforts to resuscitate him had been unsuccessful, he said.
The Egyptian government at the time confirmed the report.
However, on the first anniversary of his death on Sunday, Morsi’s legal team at Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers announced that they had obtained information that cast new light into the cause of his death.
“Information now disclosed appears to confirm that Abdullah was transported in his car a distance of more than 20km to a hospital after he took his last breath as a result of having been injected with a lethal substance, and he was not transferred to nearby hospitals, intentionally, until after he had died,” a statement by the London-based law firm read.
“It is quite clear that certain elements of the state were aware of this fact that is only now coming to light,” it added.
‘Mysterious’ death
Toby Cadman, who heads the Guernica 37 legal team, told Middle East Eye on Monday that the circumstances surrounding the death remained “mysterious”.
“There are a number of questions that remain unanswered, but the information we have leads us to believe that he was killed,” he said.
Prior to his death, Abdullah, Cadman said, had lived in fear for his life after publicly accusing certain government officials of killing his father, the late president who had died in a courtroom in June 2019.
Days after his father had died, Abdullah identified several figures, including current Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq, his predecessor Majdi Abdel Ghaffar, and Mohamed Shereen Fahmy, the judge who oversaw the ex-president’s trial, as “accomplices” in the “assassination of the martyr, President Morsi”.
Source: ME
